“Will Win Battle Against Me…”: R Ashwin Concedes He Wouldn’t Be Able To Tackle This Pakistan Star | Cricket News

Ravichandran Ashwin is without doubt one of the biggest lively gamers at present. With 490 wickets in 95 Test matches, the second-highest wicket-taker amongst lively spinners after Nathan Lyon (509 wickets). However, with India going through England in a five-match collection beginning later this month, Ashwin has a great likelihood to surpass Lyon. He wants solely 10 extra wickets to be the second Indian after the good Anil Kumble to take 500 or extra Test wickets. He is at present having fun with a break earlier than the Test collection in opposition to England.

He not too long ago encountered a hypothetical survey the place gamers from totally different eras had been pitted in opposition to one another. The query was easy: “Who would win these contests?” The participant match-ups included Virat Kohli vs Waqar Younis, Babar Azam vs Anil Kumble, Rohit Sharma vs Wasim Akram, Sachin Tendulkar vs Shaheen Afridi. It additionally had a match-up between Ravichandran Ashwin and Javed Miandad.

Ashwin conceded that he wouldn’t be capable to win the ‘battle’. He wrote on his Instagram story: “Miandad will win the battle against me. What a fabulous player he was. I just wish there was a Time Machine”.

Recently, Ravichandran Ashwin gave a fiery response to Michael Vaughan relating to a touch upon Indian cricket workforce. India’s poor present within the Test collection opener prompted the previous England captain to model the workforce one of the ‘underachieving’ in world cricket. Vaughan’s assertion even made some former Indian cricketers echoed his feedback however veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is not in settlement.

Ashwin, in a video on his YouTube channel, issued a fiery response, saying such a remark ‘made him snigger’ contemplating how properly India have completed in world cricket, particularly within the Test format.

“Michael Vaughan made a statement after the first Test that India is an underachieving team. Yes, we haven’t won ICC trophies for years. We call ourselves the powerhouses of the game. But the Test team has been one of the best traveling teams in the vicinity. We have seen many great results,” Ashwin mentioned in response.

“After he said that, so many experts from our own country started questioning if India is an underachieving team. Frankly, it made me laugh. Picture yourself. Just reverse the situation. SA batted first in this Test after winning the toss. If SA had batted first after winning the toss in Centurion, wasn’t there a chance they could have gotten all out by 65? Even India was staring at the barrel at 20/3, thanks to Virat and Shreyas’ partnership from there to save us.”

“So, both cricket and Test cricket are differentiated by fine margins. In a country like India, where we talk cricket in every nook and cranny and consider the sport a religion, I feel we criticize and nitpick too much and get into unnecessary details. I think these are blinding us,” mentioned Ashwin.